Just a bookmark for now, thanks to an X/Twitter exchange on simplifying complexity (you know – that famously fatuous Feynman quote).
A large part of my epistemological thesis involves wisdom beyond “science” aka #MoreThanScience and a large part of that is about (so-called) eastern / indigenous / alternative world-views. That is, once you get people to accept that there really are aspects of reality explicable but not usefully (even dangerously-misleadingly) modelled or planned (repeatably and/or predictably) by logically-positive-objective world-views. Science as 20:20 hindsight.
And obviously, starting with the Zen of Pirsig in my case over 25 years ago, those eastern / indigenous alternatives have involved Vedic / Sanskrit sources, and modern interpretations like those of Salman Rushdie. Less obviously, Gödel beyond number spaces – à la Hofstadter – is part of what limits the scientific view, along with the more obvious subjective-experiential-affective-psychological understandings and the non-ergodic historicity aspects of complex-adaptive-systems-thinking.
The exchange was interesting and included a double-recommendation to read this from Paul Howard:
Ashish Dalela, “The Implications of Compression and Incompressibility,” in Shabda Journal, August 19, 2022, https://journal.shabda.co/2022/08/19/the-implications-of-compression-and-incompressibility/
Only skimmed so far – interesting – hence bookmarked.
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I’ll pull through key parts of the dialogue from the X/Twitter exchange above.
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